Rebuilding America's Communities screenshot

Rebuilding America's Communities: A Comprehensive Community Wealth Building Federal Policy Proposal

Fighting for a new systemic vision Centering community and place

This report draws upon practical experience accumulated over the years in many areas and proposes a strategic approach to integrate, expand, and coordinate a powerful array of activities focused on promoting community wealth building in the nation’s distressed communities. Or, to put it more simply, to place community wealth building squarely at the center of federal economic revitalization policy.

Publication date: 2010-03-31
Parent publication: University of Maryland
Publisher: The Democracy Collaborative
Download and read now:

More related work

May 18, 2020
Digital infrastructure panel

Democratic digital infrastructure

by Thomas Hanna, Mathew Lawrence, Miriam Brett, Adrienne Buller

The global spread of Covid-19 has shone a bright spotlight on both the vital need for reliable high-speed internet and the inadequacies of the for-profit, corporate model in delivering it. This paper, the first of four modules on democratic public ownership in the United Kingdom and the US, explores

read more
March 2, 2020
HAN's Anchor Mission Communications Toolkit

Healthcare Anchor Network's (HAN) Anchor Mission Communications Toolkit

by Bich Ha Pham

The Anchor Mission Communications Toolkit provides communications tips, tools and examples from anchor institutions, to help with the work of communicating an anchor mission approach.

read more
An array of prescription medications on shelves

Medicine For All: The case for a public option in the pharmaceutical industry

by Dana Brown

Democratic, public ownership of pharmaceutical development, production, and distribution in the U.S. is necessary to combat the increasingly harmful impacts of Big Pharma which decades of regulation have failed to counteract.

read more